Attack On Medicare

Are you on Medicare, or do you want Medicare for all? State of Connecticut retirees have always had traditional Medicare with supplement. This is not a gift but a vested earned benefit, deferred compensation for work performed. Changing health benefits for future retirees may be bad policy, but taking them from current retirees is a kind of wage theft.

The concessions agreed to in the budget deal (on which retirees can't vote) degrades that benefit. The state cuts retiree health spending by $130 million annually and transfers retirees from government administered Medicare with supplement onto privatized "Medicare Advantage."

No amount of Orwellian marketing humbug can hide the fact: this is a substantial detrimental change.